Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Turning lucent winmodem into soundcard | Date | 17 Sep 1999 10:04:30 GMT |
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Followup to: <19990916235202.A1257@bug.ucw.cz> By author: Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi! > > I've driver which essentially turns lucents winmodem into > soundcard. So - hardware interface was guessed and "only" remaining > part is doing v34 in software. > > See discuss@linmodems.org archives for details. > > Now, question is where should it go. That winmodem uses interrupts so > little that it can be nicely done using polling+userspace with zero > performance lost. Still it is device driver. Should it go into kernel? > [Well, drivers/sound/modem would be cool :-)] >
This is indeed very cool :) Does it support handling the telephone interface (hangup, ring detect, etc) as well? If so, it could be used as an answering machine, if nothing else :)
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